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URPE at UC Berkeley: The Activities, Protests, and Legacy of the Economics Students and URPE’s Once Largest Chapter

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Students at UC Berkeley helped found the Union for Radical Political Economic (URPE) in 1968. The Berkeley chapter of URPE worked with economic students to successfully press that a radical economist be hired, which also resulted in a political economy field concentration. URPE at Berkeley provided a supportive community for graduate students, and intellectual stimulation and support for students who were interested in non-neoclassical training and research. URPE with other students provided study groups and taught political economy courses to undergraduates. Although this chapter of URPE no longer exists, its legacy is a more plural department that is more representative, thanks to former economics graduate students who attended this university.

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  • Marlene Kim, 2018. "URPE at UC Berkeley: The Activities, Protests, and Legacy of the Economics Students and URPE’s Once Largest Chapter," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 50(3), pages 522-533, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:50:y:2018:i:3:p:522-533
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613418782500
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    1. Tiago Mata, 2018. "Radical Economics as Journalism: The Origins of Dollars & Sense," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 50(3), pages 534-548, September.
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    URPE; URPE history; Berkeley URPE history;
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    JEL classification:

    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • B20 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - General
    • B29 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Other

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